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I have never liked the name Lydia. The sound is unpleasant, like a disease or maybe a sneaky, snickering laugh. I always picture a Victorian housemaid who simpers and acts like an airhead to make her employers comfortable, but who is actually scheming to steal their silver and maybe poison them, and probably set one of the other servants up to take the fall.

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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin